Now Steve, you can tap these into your calculator one by one,
get all the quotients, and mark the ones that are 4.2, all in about
3 minutes.
There are three (3) of them in the list.
One of them is 'C'. 27.3 ÷ 6.5 = 4.2
Now pick up your calculator and find the other two. You can do it !
Answer:
x = -3, 
Step-by-step explanation:
The given quadratic equation is: 
This can be written as: 
To solve a quadratic equation of the form
we use the formula:

Here, a = 2; b = 3; c = - 9
Therefore, the roots of the equation are:



We get two values of 'x', viz.,
x =
and 

⇒ x = -3, 3/2
Since the factors of the quadratic equation is asked, we write it as:
(x + 3)(x -
) = 0
because, if (x - a)(x - b) are the factors of a quadratic equation, then 'a' and 'b' are its roots.
Multiply (x + 3) and (x -
to see that this indeed is the given quadratic equation.
Let's call x1: The rate per hour of the number one mechanic. X2: The rate per hour of mechanic number two. The first thing you should do is identify the system of equations that best describes the problem. In this case it is a system of 2 equations with two unknowns which when solved gives a total of x1 = 85 $ / h and x2 = 50 $ / h. Attached solution.
They each give $10 because the pattern is changing by 10.
The answer would be 15:3 :)